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By Charles van der Leeuw Russia’s return to serious trade and investment on the African continent only seriously took off almost three decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union. The legacy the USSR had left in Africa remained untouched by western powers for a long time, and when China, in 2014, announced its Belt […]
Kazakhstan and Russia have agreed to expand mutual trade in agricultural products and food at a meeting of their intergovernmental commission on cooperation (IGC) in Astana last week. The Kazakh delegation was headed by Deputy Prime Minister and National Economy Minister Serik Zhumangarin, and the Russian delegation was headed by Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk. […]
The National Mercantile Exchange (NAMEX) plans to launch a Digital Grain Exchange in Novorossiysk Port in January 2026 to create a unified digital space for determining the market price of grain. It will be known as the “Unified Exchange Order Book.” The National Mercantile Exchange was established in 2002 to organize the commodity market and […]
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has instructed the Russian government, with the participation of the Maritime Board, to submit proposals to increase the efficiency of cargo delivery from Siberia, the Far East, and the Urals to the route of the Transarctic Transport Corridor (TTC). This differs from the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in that the […]
The Nizhnekamsk district in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan is to develop and launch quay infrastructure of a new Kama River port next year, which will become part of a logistics complex linking to the INSTC corridor. This will open up the region to be part of the North-South Corridor and improve trade links with […]
PJSC DOM.RF has announced plans for an IPO on the Moscow Exchange, with the planning to obtain a listing and start trading its shares on the Moscow Exchange this month. The shares are expected to be included in the first-tier list. DOM RF are a Russian state-owned financial services and property management company involved in […]
Primorsky Krai investors in the Russian Far East are implementing four projects for the construction of logistics complexes, with a total announced investment in excess of ₽120 billion (US$1.5 billion), according to Yana Ryzhkova, Deputy Minister of Forestry, Environmental Protection, Wildlife, and Natural Resources of Primorsky Krai. She has stated that Primorsky local companies have […]
The visit of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to China has resulted in a recalibration of bilateral trade, with China increasingly seen by Russia as promising for import substitution of technologies. While general trade, with oil dominating, was previously the key topic, the bilateral trade focus has now shifted. Attention is now on industrial cooperation […]
Russia and China will strengthen cooperation on Arctic issues, according to a joint communiqué following the 30th regular meeting of their heads of government. Russian Prime Minister Mishustin recently visited Beijing and took part in these discussions. The communique states “They agreed to develop cooperation on Arctic issues, including interaction within the Subcommittee on Cooperation […]
Russian fertilizer company Uralchem has donated 30,000 metric tons of potash to Bangladesh as a humanitarian gesture, the company said in a statement on Thursday. The shipment was conducted under the United Nations World Food Program. Uralchem CEO Dmitry Konyaev said that mineral fertilizers play a crucial role in boosting crop yields and ensuring a […]
Russia increased its exports of wheat gluten to India 9-fold year-on-year to over 1,500 tonnes in January-September 2025, while the value of the exports grew almost 7-fold to reach US$1.7 million, Russia’s Agroexport federal center reported. Russia started exporting this product to India in 2020. India was the fourth biggest importer of wheat gluten from […]
In signs that regional relations, impacted by the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, are now returning to normal, Armenia is considering the possibility of importing various goods from Russia by rail through Azerbaijan, according to Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Prime Minister. Armenia is landlocked, with its only regional sea access either via Azerbaijan on the Caspian or through […]
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